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List:       kde-pim
Subject:    Re: [Kde-pim] KSharedFile RFC
From:       Holger Freyther <freyther () gmx ! net>
Date:       2001-12-17 13:23:05
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Am Sonntag, 16. Dezember 2001 21:16 schrieb Preston Brown:
> On Sun, 2001-12-16 at 12:12, Holger Freyther wrote:
> > Hi Cornelius, kde-pims,
> > Cornelius and me created KSharedFile. Cornelius I added all the stuff you
> > missed and I think my file is ready for committing. I would like to add
> > it to kio? Any comments>
>
> If you guys don't mind that this implementation is riddled with race
> conditions, there isn't really a problem.  Otherwise, I suggest you look
> into standard locking procedures like flock(), which has already dealt
> with these issues (the locking is implemented as an atomic operation).

Hi man,
Do you think there's a race condition? Really? are sure? As far as I know is 
hard linking an atomic operation. EIther I can hardlink or not. Otherwise the 
implementation of the fs would be wrong.

regards Holger

PS: look deeper at the code
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